Anne Kansiime a household name in Ugandan comedy, is one of Uganda’s most successful comedians. She is traveling the world, with sold out shows and multiple awards. As part of her success, Anne Kansiime runs a YouTube channel that is Uganda’s busiest most viewed channels. It’s through this channel that Anne Kansiime delivers rib cracking comedy videos to her fans across the world. Anne Kansiime has definitely set an example when it comes to content creation and distribution in Uganda....

Around September this year, Twitter started testing a feature that made it easier for users to see the latest tweets on their feed first, rather than the ones pushed by Twitters algorithm. The feature is a toggle fashioned as a sparkle icon that lives above the home timeline and it keeps you from having to go into the settings to get a chronological view. With this, you have an option of deciding between seeing the latest tweets first or seeing Twitter’s algorithmic based chosen ‘Top Tweets’ when you open the app....

Your Uber is arriving…but with a price reduction. In a press briefing in Kampala, Uber made the announcement and also posted on their blog about a reduction of up to 23% on the fares. Uber charges by both distance and time. Previously the taxi-hailing app was charging Ugx 900 per Km, but now it will be charging Ugx 750 while time spent will be priced at Ugx 150/minute down from Ugx 200....

The Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group lets mobile operators shape Ubuntu’s mobile strategy. Members receive advance confidential briefings and provide Ubuntu team with industry insight to ensure that Ubuntu meets their needs. It seems the Ubuntu phone will aim at providing better user experience and operator support as we can tell from Li Xingxin , of China Unicom’s terminal research and support center; Ubuntu can be an exciting new platform for the Chinese market, offering a brand new user experience that balances user simplicity with operator requirements...

Raxio, an enterprise firm under Roha Group, is setting up Uganda’s first state-of-the-art data centre in the Namanve Industrial and Business Park. Raxio Data Centre Limited was established earlier this year by Roha Ventures, a greenfield investment company that invests in and develops new businesses across Africa. The firm leads development of new companies on-the-ground from idea generation, to detailed business plans and capital projects, and through commercial operations with running offices in Nairobi, Addis Ababa, Dubai and New York....

It’s crystal clear, there is just so much valuable information around us. Unfortunately, most of it is locked up in fireproof cabins — owned by the government — and not even easily accessible by the public. This has bred contempt and suspicion. A lot of it. In Uganda, on June 3 2011, the government finally put to paper the regulations that allowed absolutely any citizen access to information through an Act that was passed by parliament nearly nine years ago....

Chippercash has today officially announced the ability of its Ugandan users to buy and sell stocks of U.S companies. Ham Serunjogi, the company CEO made the announcement today at their Unlocking Global Investment event. You can buy fractional shares from over 100+ publicly traded U.S companies including Netflix, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Tesla, Intel, Walt Disney, Walmart, Visa, Paypal and much more. Chipper has worked with the Capital Markets Authority and Bank of Uganda to launch the product....

Few devices get the whole smartphone industry talking like the Samsung Galaxy S-devices that usually launch at the beginning of the year. The S23 devices launched almost a year ago, still represent some of the best Android devices we have in the market today. Well, a year has passed and we’re due to get its successor, the Samsung Galaxy S24 devices. These devices and probably a few more announcements that did not leak, are expected to be unveiled at the Unpacked 2024 event slated for January 17th, 2024....

Earlier this month, the USB promoter group, the body that’s concerned with the development and standard specification of USB protocol announced USB4. The announcement almost coincides with USB 3.2 which tops data transfer speeds of up to 20Gbps. USB 4 is expected to even double USB 3.2 bandwidth to 40Gbps and enable multiple simultaneous data and display protocols. This will be achieved through the use of two 20 Gbps channels. With this bandwidth, USB 4 will now be similar to Intel’s proprietary Thunderbolt 3 spec popularly used in the latest Macbooks and premium Windows PCs....

VPN’s are a common global method of accessing internet services while masking the nature of the internet service being used. It is because such VPN’s can then be used to access OTT services indirectly that government has included such sites as being subject to OTT TAX. Unfortunately, the creation of a VPN service is relatively easy, and takes place outside of Ugandan borders. For this reason, the operators will block access to VPN’s that the authorities declare to be used for OTT services, unless the consumer has paid their OTT TAX....

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a breakthrough in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These models are designed to process and understand human language, and they have the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with machines. In this article, we will explore what LLMs are, and give both a developer and non-developer overview. As the demand for Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications continues to grow, researchers are turning to Large Language Models (LLMs) to meet this demand....

Over the past two years, various art collections have been sold as digital jpegs for millions of dollars. Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter, sold his first tweet for over $2.9 million. This is possible through a non-fungible token, also known as NFT. So what is this new phenomenon selling like hot cake lately? This article will explain what an NFT is, how it works, and so much more. Let’s get right into it....

A hard disk is fast. A Solid State Disk is even faster. What if you want something even faster? The answer is a RAM drive, also known as a RAM disk. What is a RAM Drive? This is a representation of a hard disk using RAM resources, and it can take the form of a hardware device or a virtual disk. It is fundamentally a block of memory that is being treated as if it implied a hard disk drive through the use of dedicated software....

Android is a very vast platform with different hardwares from various OEMs all over the globe. Adopting a one-size-fits-all approach might not exactly be the best approach and Google knows this. A few years back Google came up with the Android One initiative, a partnership of some sorts in which OEM’s would produce hardware according to Google’s spec and Google would then be responsible for the software aspect. With this, users would enjoy all the Google’s googlies with frequent updates, all at a reasonable price....

Google’s Smart Compose is a feature designed to help users reduce repetitive writing, spelling errors, and grammatical mistakes while writing content on any of Google’s platforms. It uses artificial intelligence to predict what a user might want to type next and help correct any mistakes a user makes while typing. If you often use Gmail, you may be familiar with this feature as it is automatically enabled. Smart Compose personalized suggestions are tailored to the way users normally write – to help maintain their writing style....

Chromecast (including the latest Chromecast with Google TV) clearly requires no introduction. The nifty internet-connected dongle plugs into your TV via the HDMI cable and lets you stream multimedia content from your phone, tablet or laptop straight onto your TV or smart speakers. This content could be anything from movies, TV shows, photos and personal videos, music, podcasts or even radio. From the comfort of your smartphone or tablet, you can search, browse, create a queue and control your TV....

So its been 10 years since Google Chrome was launched. Time really does fly. To mark they 10th year since initial launch, Google has launched Chrome version 69, and this release is huge as it brings quite a bit to the table. The most notable change has to be the new theme that I must admit, looks really slick. But that isn’t the only thing that’s new. You can now personalize Chrome’s New Tab page with background images and custom shortcuts....

Whether your reason is Whatsapp outages or that things are getting a little hairy now that Whatsapp is in Facebook’s hands, we’ve at least 5 alternatives to one of the most popular messaging App in the world and arguably in Africa. Before and after the new kid on the block showed up, these messaging Apps will deliver nearly the same user experience and value that Whatsapp does. Mixit You can quickly and easily record and send audio voice clips and messages in chat, have a private group chat, engage with communities with whom you share similar interests among other awesome features....

In October 2018, WhatsApp added support for PiP for various video platforms like YouTube for Android . This was many months after support for iOS was introduced and now, the Web version of WhatsApp is getting the same treatment. The feature is live but you will need v.0.3.2041 on newer for the service to work. Users running older versions of the applications will have to to force clear the page’s cache and restart their browser....

In tech, we always advise people to strive and run the very latest version of given software. Be it, Android, be it Windows, Antivirus, apps, everything. It is a healthy habit with its own set of perks including; bug fixes that could possibly be loopholes that would compromise the integrity of your system, new features, and functionality among many more reasons. However, running the very latest version of software may not exactly be a good thing....